Czech Famous Names Starting with Letter I

Was a Bohemian composer and piano virtuoso, whose career after his early years was based initially i

Was a Bohemian composer and piano virtuoso, whose career after his early years was based initially in London, and later at Leipzig, where he succeeded his friend and sometime pupil Felix Mendelssohn as head of the Conservatoire.

Is a former Slovak ice hockey player.Igor Liba played for ZPA Prešov (1970–1978), HC Košice (197

Is a former Slovak ice hockey player.Igor Liba played for ZPA Prešov (1970–1978), HC Košice (1978–1982, 1984–1988, 1991–1992, 1997–1998 and 1998–1999) and HC Dukla Jihlava (1982–1984) in Czechoslovakia, after 1993 in Slovakia.

Is a contemporary Czech composer and essayist. He entered the Prague Conservatory, then went on to t

Is a contemporary Czech composer and essayist. He entered the Prague Conservatory, then went on to the Prague Academy of Arts, where he studied with Ilona Štepánová-Kurzová, daughter of Vilém Kurz.

Is a backstroke swimmer and Olympian from the Czech Republic. She at the 2000 and 2004 Olympics.At t

Is a backstroke swimmer and Olympian from the Czech Republic. She at the 2000 and 2004 Olympics.At the 2001 Short Course European Championships, she set the then European Records in the 50 and 100 backstrokes (27.06 and 57.75).

Was a prominent Czech sociologist and philosopher. Since 1922 the professor of sociology at the Masa

Was a prominent Czech sociologist and philosopher. Since 1922 the professor of sociology at the Masaryk university, Brno, 1950 pensioned. Bláha was the leading figure of the Brno school of sociology and author of the theoretical concept of 'federative functionalism'.

Is a retired female breaststroke swimmer from the Czech Republic, who won two gold medals at the 197

Is a retired female breaststroke swimmer from the Czech Republic, who won two gold medals at the 1979 Summer Universiade in Mexico City, Mexico. She represented Czechoslovakia at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.

Is a Czech slalom canoer who has competed since the mid 1990s. She won five medals in the K-1 team e

Is a Czech slalom canoer who has competed since the mid 1990s. She won five medals in the K-1 team event at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with two golds (2003, 2005) and three silvers (2002, 2006, 2007).Pavelková also competed in three Summer Olympics, earning her best finish of fifth in the K-1 event at Sydney in 2000.

Was a Czech operatic soprano who had an active career appearing in European opera houses during the

Was a Czech operatic soprano who had an active career appearing in European opera houses during the latter half of the eighteenth century. A dramatic soprano, she was admired for both her musical and acting talent. She is best remembered for appearing in the world premieres of a number of operas by Antonín Dvorák and Bedrich Smetana.

Is a Moravian avant-garde violinist, singer and composer of Romani origin. She began her career as a

Is a Moravian avant-garde violinist, singer and composer of Romani origin. She began her career as an actress in the mid 1970s, appearing in several Czech feature films, but switched to playing violin and singing in the early 1980s. She started recording in 1986 and by 1990 her unique vocal and instrumental technique gained her international recognition. Since then, she has performed regularly all over Europe, the United States and Japan, and has made over eight solo albums.

Is a former professional tennis player from Czechoslovakia. She played on the WTA Tour from 1978 unt

Is a former professional tennis player from Czechoslovakia. She played on the WTA Tour from 1978 until 1991, winning four doubles titles. She achieved a career high singles ranking of World No. 24 (in 1983) and a doubles ranking of World No. 55 (in 1987).

Is a Czech actress. She attended grammar school in Ceské Budejovice, but her love to theatre won af

Is a Czech actress. She attended grammar school in Ceské Budejovice, but her love to theatre won after all and in 1963 she graduated from the Faculty of Theatre of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. In 1964 she became the main member of the Vinohrady Theatre and since 1988 she has been a member of The Drama Club in Prague.She has appeared in many films such as Což takhle dát si špenát (What Would You Say to Some Spinach?),Marecku, podejte mi pero! (Marecek, Pass Me the Pen!) and famous series Hospital at the End of the City.

Is a Czechoslovak sprint canoer who competed in the late 1960s. She finished fifth in the K-1 500 m

Is a Czechoslovak sprint canoer who competed in the late 1960s. She finished fifth in the K-1 500 m event at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.

Is a Slovak Air Force officer and former cosmonaut.He was the first Slovak citizen to enter outer sp

Is a Slovak Air Force officer and former cosmonaut.He was the first Slovak citizen to enter outer space. He participated in a nine-day joint Russian-French-Slovak mission on the Mir space station in 1999.

Was a Czech politician and environmental expert.He became a signatory to Charter 77 early in 1977 an

Was a Czech politician and environmental expert.He became a signatory to Charter 77 early in 1977 and soon became the head of its environmental commission. In 1987 Dejmal started to issue samizdat journal Ecological Bulletin (Ekologický bulletin)

Was a significant Czech poet and essayist of the 2nd half of the 20th century.He was born to a famil

Was a significant Czech poet and essayist of the 2nd half of the 20th century.He was born to a family of a bank officer. While he was studying at high school in Prague during World War II he was arrested by Gestapo and imprisoned in Peckárna and Pankrác. Since 1942 he worked in a bookstore, and in the end of the war he was employed at V. Petr publisher. After passing maturita he studied philosophy and aesthetics at Charles University (1945-49). In the early 1950s he worked as a corrector at Communist Rudé právo newspaper.

Is a former Czech football player and football manager who is currently a president of Football Asso

Is a former Czech football player and football manager who is currently a president of Football Association of the Czech Republic, and temporary coach of the Czech Republic national football team.

Was a Czech professional ice hockey player and coach. He was one of the most important figures in Cz

Was a Czech professional ice hockey player and coach. He was one of the most important figures in Czech ice hockey.He played in the inaugural Canada Cup tournament in 1976, playing against NHL superstars. Canada defeated Czechoslovakia in the best-of-thre

Was a Czech bacteriologist, serologist and activist in the struggle against tuberculosis. Honl becam

Was a Czech bacteriologist, serologist and activist in the struggle against tuberculosis. Honl became one of founders of Czech microbiology.Under the guidance of Jaroslav Hlava Honl gained his habilitation in bacteriology at Charles University in Prague in 1898. In 1919 he was named head to the new Czech Bacteriological Institute (Ústav pro bakteriologii a sérologii Lékarské fakulty Univerzity Karlovy). .

Is a former Slovak football player. He played for Czechoslovakia, for which he played 17 matches and

Is a former Slovak football player. He played for Czechoslovakia, for which he played 17 matches and scored two goals.He played mostly for Slovan Bratislava and also for Zbrojovka Brno.

Was an Academy Award-winning Czech child actor.Jandl appeared in the 1948 film The Search as a nine-

Was an Academy Award-winning Czech child actor.Jandl appeared in the 1948 film The Search as a nine-year-old Czech boy who had survived Auschwitz and was searching for his mother in post-war Germany. Filmed on location, the performance of Jandl as a boy rendered mute by his experiences struck a chord with cinema goers and critics alike. He was awarded an Academy Juvenile Award for his work, but was not permitted to travel to the USA to accept it. He appeared in some Czech films in 1949 and 1950 and then left acting to continue his studies. He tried unsuccessfully to continue his acting career in his late teens, and eventually found work in radio.

Is a Czechoslovakian musician who is best known as a member of the Patti Smith Group.[1] He was co-d

Is a Czechoslovakian musician who is best known as a member of the Patti Smith Group.[1] He was co-director of the 1976 punk rock documentary The Blank Generation, and has been nominated for Czech Lion award for Best Music in the 2001 film Cabriolet.

He was one of the game's most dominant players in the 1980s[1] and remained a top competitor into th

He was one of the game's most dominant players in the 1980s[1] and remained a top competitor into the early 1990s. Tennis magazine named him as one of the ten greatest tennis players since 1966, calling him "the game’s greatest overachiever" and emphasizi

Author, architect and propagator of Czech culture and technology.Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade, a

Author, architect and propagator of Czech culture and technology.Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade, and Heda Margolius Kovály, Czech writer and translator.[1] He attended primary and secondary schools there and started to study architecture at the Czech Institute of Technology in Prague. Margolius left Czechoslovakia in 1966 because of political persecution of his family. He settled in the United Kingdom where he became a naturalized citizen in 1973 and where he completed his architectural studies at the Polytechnic of Central London. He practised architecture at Yorke Rosenberg Mardall, Foster and Partners, Koetter Kim and Associates and Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. Margolius was a long-time collaborator of Jan Kaplický founder of Future Systems. Margolius is an author of numerous articles and books on art, architecture, automobiles, design and history.[2]

Is a Czech concert pianist whose performing and recording career, spanning nearly half a century, ha

Is a Czech concert pianist whose performing and recording career, spanning nearly half a century, has gained him a world-wide following.

Czech-born film director & screenwriter.One of the key figures in the Czech New Wave in the early si

Czech-born film director & screenwriter.One of the key figures in the Czech New Wave in the early sixties, Passer worked closely with Miloš Forman on many of his films, and directed his first feature in 1965. Following the Soviet invasion in 1968, Passer defected to the West, aided by Carlo Ponti and has been living and working in the United States since then.